D. S. BattistoliIn defense of the cut-upThe movie All the Old Knives is a grown-up spy thriller that, disdaining to distract, misses out on diversion and entertainment.10 min read·Apr 14, 2022----
D. S. BattistoliThe Enduring Imperfection of Thought, or, A Few Problematic FavesJoan Didion, after several years of not covering the civil rights movement, did so in an essay called Black Panther. She was not impressed11 min read·Apr 13, 2022----
D. S. BattistoliOur Correspondent in CaliforniaAmong New Journalists who started writing in the U.S. in the 1960s, Joan Didion payed the least attention to the civil rights movement.9 min read·Jan 12, 2022----
D. S. BattistoliGood cop, bad cop, same copSidney Lumet’s Prince of the City investigates the moral progress of a whistleblower, as victims of corruption remain offstage5 min read·Jun 17, 2021----
D. S. BattistoliThe impossibility of reformAn old police procedural for our time7 min read·Jun 17, 2021----
D. S. BattistoliThe voyage into literary representationThe art of the query letter, as illustrated by a novel about Suriname in the eighteenth century11 min read·Jun 10, 2021----
D. S. BattistoliSet It Off: making you care and breaking your heartFun with genre films7 min read·Jun 8, 2021----
D. S. BattistoliQAnon, The Conjuring, and the devilA movie about an interventionist devil comes out as polls show an unprecedented number of Americans believe in that: a surefire hit?2 min read·May 28, 2021----